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Patricia Reding

SELECT

Synopsis

A Challenge Met.
A Calling Sought.
A Faith Required.
When Mara, Oathtaker to the ranking twin members of the Select, suffers an injury, her charges—Reigna and Eden—seek to determine their callings, while Dixon suffers over the potential loss of his beloved.
As their allies disperse in response to a growing threat to their homeland, and as the forces of evil set out to destroy them, the twins journey across The Tearless, where in fulfillment of prophecy, they face three challenges.
A single misstep may bring them to ruin; perseverance, to glory.
To triumph, they must first believe.

Author Biography

Multi-award-winning author Patricia Reding leads a double life. By day, she practices law. By night, she reads, reviews a wide variety of works, and writes fantasy. She lives on an island on the Mississippi with her husband and youngest daughter (her son and oldest daughter having already flown the nest), and Flynn Rider (an English Cream Golden Retriever). From there she seeks to create a world in which she can be in two places at once.
Oathtaker: The Oathtaker Series, Vol. One, won a GOLD medal in the Literary Classics Int'l Book Award Contest, also won an award in the Readers' Favorite Int'l Book Award Contest, and was named a Finalist in the Beverly Hills Book Award Contest. In addition, WindDancer Films has asked to take a look at it . . .
Select: The Oathtaker Series, Vol. Two, won a SILVER medal in the Literary Classics Int'l Book Award Contest and earned a Finalist award in the Readers' Favorite Int'l Book Awards Contest.
Ephemeral and Fleeting: The Oathtaker Series, Vol. 3, won a SILVER medal in the 2017 Literary Classics International Book Award Contest.
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Author Insight

Limitless Evil

When I read this excerpt, I think of the evil that Lilith exercised. She was responsible for the deaths of many--and the things that she did all seem to boil down to one basic principle: she had no regard for the lives of others. I wonder at times if she was amoral--that is, if she was simply unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something. Or perhaps she understood what was right and wrong, but simply didn't care. Over time, I've come to appreciate that for a person to behave as Lilith did, she must think very little of herself. This is true even though that person presents herself to all the world as though she cares only for herself. What do you think? What if, following the early signs that Marshall discusses here, someone had intervened. Might the future have been different? Have you ever found yourself in a position of wondering if you should intervene? How did you handle it?

Book Excerpt

SELECT

In unison, the two halted. “I understand. I think I’d have done the same thing. But you know, there’s something I’ve always wondered.”

“What’s that?”

“Why didn’t she raise her own son?”

“Broden?” Marshall looked down the street before meeting Jerrett’s eyes, then glancing off once again. “Because I saw her . . . mistreat him. I stopped her, but I should have stopped her sooner. I doubted what she was up to . . . for a time. Broden was just an infant, completely at her mercy. But when I saw . . .” He swallowed hard. “When I saw her with my own eyes, when I could not deny the truth, I informed Rowena. That very night she and I arranged for someone to take Broden from the palace.”

“And you feel no . . . guilt for having done so?”

“Guilt? No! It was the right thing to do. In time, Lilith would have—”